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Expenses probe MP to stand down
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| A Conservative MP facing claims he used
| expenses to pay his own company is to stand
| down at the general election.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8309802.stm
IBM, Intel execs arrested over alleged insider trading
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| Executives from IBM and Intel were arrested
| today amid allegations they were involved in
| an insider trading scam.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/ibm_intel_insider_trading/
Letting Goldman roll the dice
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| On this morningâs conference call, David
| Viniar, Goldman Sachsâ chief financial
| officer, emphasized the bankâs valuable social
| role. His bank made markets and provided
| credit when other financial players were
| suffering.
|
| [...]
|
| Even as Goldman reported results that
| reflected in part the resurgence in
| derivatives, the House Financial Services
| Committee passed legislation that would
| increase derivatives regulation. But the bill
| is riddled with loopholes that Wall Street can
| easily exploit. A much tougher line is
| necessary.
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http://blogs.reuters.com/rolfe-winkler/2009/10/15/letting-goldman-roll-the-dice/
Goldman Sachs: Your tax dollars, their big bonuses
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| It's probably cold comfort, but Goldman Sachs
| couldn't have done it without your help.
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http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/15/news/companies/goldman_taxpayer_gains.fortune/
Who Really Will Pay for Goldman Sachsâ $23 Billion in New Bonuses
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| The outstanding question is whether Congress
| has the cajones to force the countryâs richest
| people and institutions to change the ways
| that made them so wealthy in the first place.
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http://ndn.org/blog/2009/10/who-really-will-pay-goldman-sachs%E2%80%99-23-billion-new-bonuses
The House That Goldman Sachs Built
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| The U.S. Treasury Department is the central
| headquarters of Wall Street, and Timmy
| Geithner is its demigod. The coup of the
| Treasury Department, which promotes itself as
| the âsteward of U.S. economic and financial
| systems,â means an economy and financial
| system run by and for the Wall Street
| oligarchy, with Goldman Sachs spearheading the
| ruling class.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/39673.html
Goldman Sachs: âA Bunch of Clever Thugsâ
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| Gapper notes that Taibbi âmischaracterised
| Goldmanâ â their success has not been based on
| âpump and dump,â but on âsticking obstinately
| to the institutional, less-regulated elite end
| of the market.â
|
| There may be something to do that, but there
| can be no doubt that Taibbi perfectly captured
| the Zeitgeist of the moment.
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http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/10/goldman-sachs-%E2%80%9Ca-bunch-of-clever-thugs%E2%80%9D/
Recent:
Transparency against malpractic
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| As a result of my new enthusiasm to 'get out more' I found myself listening
| to a detailed and balanced 'non-advocacy' presentation from a respected OSS
| Watch staffer.
|
| He explained patiently how open source licencing worked and how it differed
| from proprietary licences. But what he did say whilst looking for an everyday
| resonance to make his points accessible to a non-geek audience, and which
| really sharpened every-one's attention, was that proprietary software was
| built on secret code whereas open source software had transparent code.
|
| Proprietary software IS composed of secret code. You can't read it, you don't
| know what it does (other than what you can see it do), you don't know how it
| does it and you can't change it.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/secret-code-and-the-damage-it-does-to-our-society.html
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